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Outer steering column connection to the steering box

bob hughes

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A little help here please. ::feedback:

I can get around most things on my Healey but I have never detached the outer steering column from the steering box.

I have found that the joint is leaking my rather expensive Penrite oil. :grumpy:
Is the joint a press on fit or does it screw up?

:cheers:

Bob
 

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I believe it's an interference fit--i.e. not exactly pressed-in, but not a loose fit, either--and it's sealed with solder (kind of like copper plumbing). Not certain about this, but that's what I thought last time I worked on one.
 

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I believe it's an interference fit--i.e. not exactly pressed-in, but not a loose fit, either--and it's sealed with solder (kind of like copper plumbing). Not certain about this, but that's what I thought last time I worked on one.


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I believe it's an interference fit--i.e. not exactly pressed-in, but not a loose fit, either--and it's sealed with solder (kind of like copper plumbing). Not certain about this, but that's what I thought last time I worked on one.

This is what I recall as well.
 

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Sounds like a job for JB weld.

Thats what I was thinking too , make sure its all super clean no paint no grease no oil . Clean with brake cleaner and apply sparingly force it into the seam probably wont notice it once its painted .
 
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bob hughes

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Thanks all

I may have to pull it and do the job properly in time, as there will be too much grease/oil around to do a good job with JB Weld or similar, though I will try it in the interim.

Thanks again

:cheers:

Bob
 
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